Social Studies

The Giant Turnip (Punjabi-English) $23.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Romanian-English) $20.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Russian-English) $23.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Somali-English) $23.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Spanish-English) $23.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Turkish-English) $23.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip (Ukrainian-English) $23.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Giant Turnip Interactive Literacy CD-ROM (Multilingual) $69.45

This spring, the children have grown an enormous turnip. How will they pull it out? First the boys try, and then the girls, but the turnip isn't budging an inch. Can Larry save the day? "The Giant Turnip" is a charming tale...

The Little Stone Lion $21.95

In a small Chinese village a stone-carved lion sits and watches as a guardian spirit and holder of the villagers' collective memory. Older people stop, stroking his head to remember the past and children walk by knowing he...

The Other Bears (Arabic-English) $10.95

Mother and Father Koala are suspicious of the "other bears." They don't like the panda bears' looks and they don't trust the polar bears. The black bears are too noisy and the brown bears have big teeth . . . . But all their...

The Other Bears (Chinese_simplified-English) $10.95

Mother and Father Koala are suspicious of the "other bears." They don't like the panda bears' looks and they don't trust the polar bears. The black bears are too noisy and the brown bears have big teeth . . . . But all their...

The Other Bears (Spanish-English) $10.95

Mother and Father Koala are suspicious of the "other bears." They don't like the panda bears' looks and they don't trust the polar bears. The black bears are too noisy and the brown bears have big teeth . . . . But all their...

The Tale of the Lucky Cat (Tagalog-English) $29.95

This retelling of the most famous Japanese folktale captures positive values, love and kindness. A toymaker who cares for an injured cat ends up having his own life saved and is repaid with good fortune. This classic story...

The Wakame Gatherers $24.95

Nanami has two grandmothers: Baachan, who lives with her family in Japan, and Gram, who lives in Maine. When Gram visits Japan one spring Baachan takes her and Nanami to the seaside to gather wakame, a long, curvy seaweed...

The Wishing Tree $24.00

Every Lunar New Year, Ming and his grandmother visited the Wishing Tree. Its branches were covered with wishes, each written on red and yellow paper fluttering in the breeze, secured by the weight of an orange. Grandmother...

Too Loud Lily (Chinese_simplified-English) $13.95

Author tells the story of an equally energetic (and very loud) young hippo in this picture book. Little Lily Hippo just can't keep quiet, no matter how hard she tries: "'Lily Hippo, keep it down please--I can't hear myself...

Tractor and Digger Save the Day (Chinese_simplified-English) $14.95

Baby Magazine Max Tractor and Dougie Digger are vehicle cousins. They both show off and pretend to the other that their respective jobs are better and more important. In reality they are jealous of one another: Max Tractor...

Up and Down the Andes A Peruvian Festival Tale $19.99

This rhyming text travels from Lake Titicaca all the way to the city of Cusco for the marvelous Inti Raymi Festival. Young readers will meet children from many areas of southern Peru who are traveling to the festival, each...

Up and Down the AndesA Peruvian Festival Tale $19.99

This rhyming text travels from Lake Titicaca all the way to the city of Cusco for the marvelous Inti Raymi Festival. Young readers will meet children from many areas of southern Peru who are traveling to the festival, each...

We're Riding on a Caravan: An Adventure on The Silk Road $22.95

Explore a world of stunning silk, delicious spices and exotic trade locations in this rhyming tale about the Silk Road, the trade route through Asia. This beautiful picture book includes endnotes on the towns along the Silk...